From brand to flock : Meleagros and Heracles in the "Trachinian Women". The wool flock with which Dejanira smears the tunic intended to regain Heracles' love for her is a detail that remains for us exclusively attached to the death of Sophocles' hero. A certain number of convergences between this dramatic enactment of Heracles' death, and the other versions of the legend that have been passed down to us, suggest that the motif of the flock may have been inspired by the fire brand in the Meleagros legend. The Pan-Hellenic heroes Meleagros and Heracles get involved during their lifetime in the indirect fight between Dionysos and Artemis and, on this occasion, their destiny depends upon an irresponsible woman. The motif of the brand probably ...
Aeschines (Against Timar. 182), Dio Chrysostomus (Or. XXXII, 78), Diodorus of Sicily (VIII, 22) repo...
Against a background of anxious evocation of Dionysiac rites, Euripides’ Heracles stages the extreme...
Our purpose in this chapter is not to try to reconstruct the lost epics of Heracles but rather to us...
From brand to flock : Meleagros and Heracles in the "Trachinian Women". The wool flock with which D...
Héracles é um conhecido personagem das narrativas míticas, sua fama não se limitou a antiguidade, me...
En base a sendas tragedias de Esquilo, Sófocles y Eurípides (Agamenón, Traquinias y Medea respectiva...
The starting point of this contribution is the mythical episode of the goddess Hera suckling the her...
An ivory plaque found in the Tartessian necropolis from Medellin (Badajoz, Spain), dated about 600 B...
The Aethiopica is a panegyric (λόγος πανηγυρικός) of love, because the story of Theagenes and Charic...
Tragedy was a frequent vehicle for the allegorical interpretation of historical events, although the...
The Trachiriiae has been seen as something of an anomaly among Sophocles' seven extant plays. It is ...
Dracontius (Vth c. AD, Vandal Africa) wrote the last Latin poem about Medea. At the end of the narra...
This paper discusses the relationship between Euripides’ Trojan Women, from 415 B. C., and the histo...
Fr. 54e Harder derives from Heracles' speech to Molorcus before he kills the Nemean Lion in Callimac...
Based on the homonymy of the Greek nounμῆλον, several mythological sources attest to a tradition acc...
Aeschines (Against Timar. 182), Dio Chrysostomus (Or. XXXII, 78), Diodorus of Sicily (VIII, 22) repo...
Against a background of anxious evocation of Dionysiac rites, Euripides’ Heracles stages the extreme...
Our purpose in this chapter is not to try to reconstruct the lost epics of Heracles but rather to us...
From brand to flock : Meleagros and Heracles in the "Trachinian Women". The wool flock with which D...
Héracles é um conhecido personagem das narrativas míticas, sua fama não se limitou a antiguidade, me...
En base a sendas tragedias de Esquilo, Sófocles y Eurípides (Agamenón, Traquinias y Medea respectiva...
The starting point of this contribution is the mythical episode of the goddess Hera suckling the her...
An ivory plaque found in the Tartessian necropolis from Medellin (Badajoz, Spain), dated about 600 B...
The Aethiopica is a panegyric (λόγος πανηγυρικός) of love, because the story of Theagenes and Charic...
Tragedy was a frequent vehicle for the allegorical interpretation of historical events, although the...
The Trachiriiae has been seen as something of an anomaly among Sophocles' seven extant plays. It is ...
Dracontius (Vth c. AD, Vandal Africa) wrote the last Latin poem about Medea. At the end of the narra...
This paper discusses the relationship between Euripides’ Trojan Women, from 415 B. C., and the histo...
Fr. 54e Harder derives from Heracles' speech to Molorcus before he kills the Nemean Lion in Callimac...
Based on the homonymy of the Greek nounμῆλον, several mythological sources attest to a tradition acc...
Aeschines (Against Timar. 182), Dio Chrysostomus (Or. XXXII, 78), Diodorus of Sicily (VIII, 22) repo...
Against a background of anxious evocation of Dionysiac rites, Euripides’ Heracles stages the extreme...
Our purpose in this chapter is not to try to reconstruct the lost epics of Heracles but rather to us...